On This Day In Aviation History

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On this day in 2016:

Today marks the fifth anniversary of the first flight, in U.S. soil, of the Military Aviation Museum’s Messerschmitt Bf-109G-4, WkNr 19257. The story of how the rare Luftwaffe fighter ended up in the skies of Virginia Beach, starts on May 5, 1943...

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50 years ago today:

On this date in 1971 the he Northrop Grumman E-2C Hawkeye flew for the first time.

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On This Day In Aviation History

1958 - First flight of the Dassault Étendard IV [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dassault_%C3%89tendard_IV]

1969 - First flight of the Antonov An-26 (NATO reporting name: Curl) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-26]

2005 - First flight of the Boeing KC-767 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_KC-767]

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On this day in 1952:

On this date in 1952 a USAF B-52 Stratofortress dropped the first air-dropped hydrogen bomb, a 3.75 MT device, on Bikini Atoll.

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On this day in 1945:

On this date in 1945 the Grumman F8 F Bearcat entered service with U. S. Navy Fighter Squadron 19 (VF-19).

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On this day in 1946 the de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk flew for the first time.

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On this day in 1958 the Sikorsky HH-52 Seaguard flew for the first time.

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On this day in 1962:

On this date in 1962 USAF Major Robert A. Rushworth flew the North American X-15 to an altitude of 30,600 meters. That 100,394 feet to you and me.

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On this day in 1990:

On this date in 1990 the German Luftwaffe flew their last F-104G Starfighter sortie.

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On this day in 1958:

On this date in 1958 USMC Major Ed LeFaivre broke five world climb-to-height records, including one to 49,221 feet in just 2 minutes and 36 seconds. He wasn't flying a rocket ship. He was flying a Douglas F4D Skyray.